Three-wheeled cultivator.



C. SWIONEAUX.

THREE WHEELED cumvm'oR.

APPLICATION FlLED SEPT. 51 1926. l T "Z I Patantedhne 5, 1917.

2 SHEETSSHEET 1.

C. SEMON EAUX.

THREE WHEELED cuuwme.

APPUCATIQHIKLED SEPT. 5,1916.

Eatemed Jun 5,1917.

2 EHEETS-SHEET 2.

d. SWONERUX l. 4 :12. ALA.

THREE- N HEELED C'ULTIVATGP.

L mifi l. Specificeaien of Letters Patent. I

epplieatien filed September 5, 193.6. Serial E0. 18,428, v 7'19 all wiwmmay c am/em: end pertiens of elre cultivator frame are be llTlZll-O'Wlll, CLEMENT Srzvlommit zz, braced by upwardly ez'raendizig inclined acitizen of 'bhe United States, residing at braces 14: which areetteclr'ecl fie beams Bellereee, in perish of Aseumptien and at theirupyer ends. e ilteize 03: Louisiana, have invented certain The forwardend 0f the frame is previdecl G0 new and useful Improvements inThreewith any siiiteblebelster 'epereti. ever e Wheeled Ciilitiva fereof which the ct'ellewfifth wheel mounteel upon the erchecl axle ing is aspecification, reference being lied 30 16, which axle carries arWer-elWheels v eennected to l he accompanying drawing s3 N, A tongue is 0 mm U19 ll i'y inventicn relates to euleivetors and @he axle, tengue beingprevicleclwitli the particularly :29 three Wl138l0tl riding cultiiisualclraf connection".

wears. rear One ebjec'iz e23 my inven'bion is the previ- 1 .31011 e e 1103'. a, ry simple and easily open riding culbn'eter in which theeultivei shovels or ether greuncl engaging members e vhe ere meuneclupon e fleeting frame and ie euitable bearings carried which theseeemieetiene p !l(l% .a gerticm lower members 11 and larly effectivemeans for or lowering carries arm 22 urged 510 the frame to illlfilebya, 13;: the clepeh. 03 a rack by mezms er? a arming 2 J 1 cut or theground engaging 'membere ed upon the upgier end 01 whereby te' hill; mecultlva'eor out of epere rm'lmil exiemlmg lever tire eesitien, 26 endepereelvely eemieciel e 1J1 tilel owece 1:1 e Ls cumiewlen 1e .0 Mnix-N1 wil e we ea 1e a,

rare (lie fer iongi nudin l amusement 0f blre 2? when, we n A; i

euluva-tcrs en the fieetlrrg frame and e r 26 will release the e engageflier e i is to provide means Whe- 11131111"? I ialie 2*811153 racle Thegrip leierzzl 5.1 or the cultivator will be pre QZis c0 .rieetecl 1'10said la-tclr. leyrecle er other rented this being perticulzzly Valuableen like 001 ieetiens e to and frem a side hills and aetingegainst thesheer e1 bell creel: lever mdle 25 maybe rlie cultivator shovels.vertically 21djSlI-Q 13' 1e Q? l ltlier objects; will ar in ihe eeiirseor eiin the fol ring (3. scripuionu rear end. 0;? rhe frame in'vemien isillustrated 112. tlie eceem eer carrying a r pee ing drmvinfe wherein:elisees E11 eenveruem V l is; a side elevetieri of e cu he a ed inaccordance Wliill my I] r erg eerie is to view; 1f the e, imp "plan viewfile f oating sh v p T I 1 10 rig is a meet ELEVfiI-lOll (if we archer;suesmn' mi eem roietiri the S0, eeeli sliiifb 30 lie i "videcl with :1Wheel 3 engegee mere pre'vieecl corresponding; Worm meuntecl upon axtending members 12, and wermshefr 86, this'sl" meun tecl in :se beams13, connecting said suitable bearings carrier my Elie 3? members andeliese downwardly extending mounterb the frame and this 3.1 0

v i a ly alewnwercl a e with the seat. it is obvious thutwhen' thisshaft 36 1S rota-ted 111 one direction the freme33 Wlll be reused. andwhen rotated in the other direction the frame 33 will be depressed.Draft links 39 with cross bars 39 are pivotally attached to brackets 20def pending from the main frame and these links are pivot-ally connectedto the floating frame adjacent opposite ends of she frame and acttransmit the draft of the main frame to the folding frame. The draftlinks 39 are also arranged substantially in parallelism.

The lion ity of ions nected by cross of the various vetor, shovelsthesebesms by -e comprises 2, plural 1 extending beams conbeezns ll andthe standards plows, burrow disks, oulti Elli-by beenguged with issuitable con nections. l have shown, ins ice cultivetor shovels 4; chbeing provided with a standard 4:2, ib standard being held. in

place upon the corresponding benm 4-0 bymeens of bolts and clips. Thenarrow disk 43 is in turn IYlOlllliififl upon u standard and engagedwith a middle beam of the flouting frame by means of suits-ole clips andis pro vided with a brace clipped to this middle beam. A cultivatorshove-l mounted in like manner upon this middle beam,

The use of she cultivator will be obvious to all skilled in the art. itsedv utoges are that the flouting frame is to ride freely over the groundby reason of the linked connect-ion of the arms 31 and the flexibledraft connections 39. The floating frame may be raised, lowered orvertically adjusted by rotating the bend wheel 33. By rotating the shaft19 the steering may be assisted or the wheel 20 may be set at a certuinpredetermined angle to the line of draft so as to resist the tendency ofthe frame to move laterally under the shearing action of the plows orcultivator shovels, thus the frame may be held on a straight course,even on a side hill.

In order to provide for increasing or decreasing the distance betweenthe wheels 17 I preferably form the arched exle us illustrated in F1g.5, that is with the main body 16 and the depending porti ns 16 which arelaterally adjustable upon the main body by means of bolts e5, insertiblethrough a plurality of bolt holes 46 (see Fig. 2%,, By this means thedownwardly extending portion inches.

the ground.

wee s 16 may be adjusted so as to space the wheels e distance of,twenty-four or forty-eight The tongue 18 is pivotally con-- nest-ed tobraces e7 which extend reerwerd and in divergent relation and are boltedtothe body 16 of the arched axle and the pivot bolt 16 also passesthroughthe forward section of a sectional brace 48, there being two ofthese braces 48, the outer ends formed" to lie against the front facesof the downwardly extending portion 16 of the arched axle bnd to be heldthereto by means of il-bolts 49. The sections of the bgucesjlS slidebieupon each other and held in sidiusted'reletiqn by nuts and bolts 5G.

it will be noted with regard to the links that these links are hingedlyconnected to the brackets 40 and hingedly connected. to eyes n thefloating frame These use 39 prevent the floating frame 3 3 from shiftsing laterally but permit the iraihe to rise in the actual manufacture ofthis device, it will in ordinary circumstances have the followingdimensions: The main from; will be about forty-eight inches long andtwelve inches wide and the floating frame will be about half the lengthor the main frame but have the same width. The main frame will bedisposed about twenty-eight inches above Having described my invention,what I clui: 1 is:

In a cultivator of the character described, mein wheel-supported frame,a pluralii" of transverse shafts on the main frame, means for rotatingsaid shaft in unison end. in the same general direction and atsubstanttielly theseme axial speed, arms extending upwardly andrearwerdly from the shafts and arranged substantially in parallelism anauxiliary frame adapted to carry ground engaging elements, liftingconnections interosed between the arms and the auxiliary reme, seidconnections extending downwardly and rearwardly substantially inparallelism, and draft links interposed between the opposite endportions of the auxiliary frame and the mam frame, said draft linksextending upwardly and forwardly and arranged substantially inparallelism.

In testimony whereof I hereunto allix my signature in the presence oftwo witnesses.

CLEMENT SIMONEAUX.

Witnesses: E. A. Jmssnn,

ULYssns D. CHABER'I.

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